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The Tryone Johnsen Collection is comprised of 4 ice house drawings and 3 presentation slides of United States refrigerator car fleets operated by the Fruit Growers Express (FGE), Western Fruit Express (WFE) and Burlington Refrigerator Express (BRE).

The Robert W Downing Collection consists of 4 photographs and 56 documents including timetables, maps and copies of the National Railway Historical Society Bulletin included in materials from the library of Robert W Downing's estate, including books, maps, railway guides, video tapes, magazines, timetables, framed photos and drawings. Other Identifiers: Jackson Street Roundhouse Accession Number 351, Jackson Street Roundhouse Collection Number.Accrual Number 316.1.

The Norm Keyes Collection is comprised of black and white prints of Great Northern Railway steam engines, work equipment, approximately 3650 photographic slides, and film negatives - approximately 5500. A limited number of photographs of equipment from other railroads and logging railroads are included.

The Jim Parker Collection includes 135 photographs of Great Northern Railway and Northern Pacific Railroad locomotives, freight cars and passenger cars.

Forms used by the Great Northern, Northern Pacific, Burlington Northern and other railroad related companies for various business purposes, dated from 1904 to 1967.

Miscellaneous Great Northern Railway-related items - seniority rosters, smaller collections or items that don't fit neatly into existing categories (as of 2011).

A listing of known Great Northern Railway station locations circa 1950, 1957 and 1967, prepared from Authorization for Expenditure data, Great Northern Railway timetables, and Great Northern Railway Officer, Agent and Station Lists.

A grouping of Great Northern Railway depot photographs compiled from several sources including principally the Norm Keyes, George Werkema and Charles W. Bohi collections.

Scans of railroad clearance diagrams for the Great Northern Railway Dakota Division, Mesabi Division, Minot Division and Willmar Division. The diagrams show the space available to run railroad cars and loads along the track between stations on the line. Many dates are illegible, but those that are readable fall between 1957 and 1969.

The Great Northern Railway- Blueprint-Authorization for Expenditure Collection (GN_Blueprint_AFEs) was created by the Great Northern Railway Historical Society from materials at the Jackson Street Roundhouse. Blueprints and other documents stored with Great Northern Railway Authorization for Expenditure files were gathered and cataloged as a separate collection with reference to the Authorization for Expenditure number where available. In addition to Great Northern Railway blueprints, some supplier blueprints, catalogs, and other supplemental materials for individual projects are included. Blueprints are categorized as Engineering drawings when depicting buildings, track and other structures and as Mechanical drawings when applicable to rolling stock. Other (minor) categories of documents include maps and plats, photographs and printed ephemera.